All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.

It is silly not to hope, besides I believe it is a sin." The Old Man and the Sea

Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us.

The ocean is worth writing about just as man is.

I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

Cowards die a thousand deaths, but the brave only die once.